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[NY Comptroller Tom DiNapoli] Between Andrew Cuomo and a Balanced Ticket
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Dec 08, 2009 09:28pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Jimmy Vielkind |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 9, 2009 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ALBANY-Tom DiNapoli is in a bad place.
It's not the fact that, as state comptroller, he's forced to preside over a state pension fund spiraling down with the overall stock market. Or that a recent poll showed that voters are inclined to pick "someone else" over him for a full term.
Worse than any of that is the fact that he happens to be standing in Andrew Cuomo's way.
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The comptroller situation is slightly more complicated. Mr. Cuomo's calculations about the ideal ticket mate, presumably, are the same. Hence reports that he is attempting to entice outgoing New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson-a well-liked, well-known African-American official who is fresh off a surprisingly strong showing in the mayor's race-into the contest.
In Mr. DiNapoli, Mr. Cuomo may well see a political weak link-an official who is unelected, indebted (he was appointed to replace Alan Hevesi, the disgraced former comptroller), inextricably tied to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and, perhaps worst of all, demographically superfluous on a prospective Democratic slate headed by a downstate Italian-American. |
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